Quoting: ShmerlIs there one for Sailfish? I can test it too. On a side note, it takes Jolla forever to open up SailfishOS UI, so I'm starting to contemplate a switch to Plasma Mobile (though it seems way less usable at present).

I meant I'll test the Android app. That's why I mentioned the compatibility layer. It takes Jolla forever to do anything and everything.

Oh, it seems Riot also provides a Linux desktop app built on electron. I'll give that one a try. Looks a lot like the Discord client.

EDIT: At first glance the Riot desktop client is not quite as slick as Discord, but it's not too bad. Now someone write a Discord bridge so I only need one chat app. :)

Yeah I know Discord's proprietary. Might just dump it if Matrix works out.

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HTTP is a protocol for (hyper)text transport, and there's a lot of existing code and libraries to reuse, so maybe it isn't the worst idea ever. Although they could have used one of the existing text chat protocols as a basis instead.

Anyone know a slick Matrix desktop client that's worth a try? There's a list of clients [External Link] in alpha/beta on the Matrix site, but no comparison. I'll test the mobile client on my Sailfish phone, but seems like Android apps running on the the compat layer tend to drain the battery on this old thing.

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Quoting: MaelraneI hope that all those patches will fix my first attempt at a vulkan engine :)

Actually the main thread just crashes and it looks like a RADV problem :/

As great as radv is, you might want to test your engine on AMDGPU-Pro as well. No need to make your work even harder than it is. Although this particular bug seems like something you might be able to catch with the Vulkan debug layers.

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Quoting: natewardawgIt was actually set to "LTS releases only", this is what caused the machine to break. :(

edit: It was being upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04, she saw the button to upgrade and pressed it. Now she has an unusable machine. "Never" would have been the better option in this case. I've personally had LTS upgrades break machines in the past. So, IMHO it's better to either nuke and pave or, since I'm not there to provide support, to just not allow the upgrade at all.

Oh, right. Kinda defeats the point if Ubuntu actually recommends upgrades to all users like that. I think Mint just warns when the support is about to run out, and doesn't actually suggest upgrading as soon as a new release is available. And Debian is even more committed to the "do not fix what is not broken" mindset.

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Quoting: natewardawgAlso, I think from now on if I do put someone on Ubuntu I'm going to set the "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version:" to "Never".

If you can't be there to provide support, just stick to LTS releases (or Mint, or even Debian stable). Doesn't sound like these users need all the latest bells and whistles anyway. That'll give them years of safe security updates and not much else.

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Great stream! I fulfilled my promise of monumental failures in Rocket League quite adequately, if I may say so myself. :)

Owlboy looked absolutely fantastic. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

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Can't wait to play Owlboy. I'll try to watch despite my low tolerance for spoilers. And after Monumental Failure, I'll try to be there to fail monumentally in Rocket League.

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Great stuff! Thanks Cheeseness!

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@Purple Library Guy:
I see what you getting at, but I don't think you have even begun to describe a workable political system there. More like an utopia where everyone has a common goal, completely disregarding the fact that our personalities, needs and desires differ. Just like the utopia of perfect Communism, this idea of an Anarchistic society falls down when you realize that no group of actual, thinking human beings is or wants to be a homogeneous mass of drones. The fact that individualist anarchism is a thing boggles the mind.

History has shown time and time again that even if everyone's basic needs are perfectly covered, people will want something more and look for ways to better their lot. We're curious, selfish, irrational and impulsive (although not equally so), which is probably the reason we thrive as a species, but also the reason we will never attain a perfect, equal society. All we can hope for is one that provides well-being for as many of its members as possible.

I think I'm happy leaving this discussion here. I don't pretend I'm an authority on the subject matter, and I'm not really interested in learning more about Anarchism. Real world politics is boring enough, political philosophy doubly so.

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Quoting: GuestA little slower and introduced some issues. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS and Insurgency would hang for a second here and there. Reverted back to the 375.26 driver and everything went back to normal. Maybe a bit early for this one.

Too early for a beta?

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